Timofey Mozgov

Timofey Mozgov is a Russian professional basketball player, champion of the American NBA League. As part of the Russian national team, he won bronze medals at the 2011 European Championships and the 2012 Olympic Games.

Timofey was born in St. Petersburg to the family of a former professional handball player Pavel Mozgov. The boy became the fourth child in the family, and the tallest of the brothers. Growth predetermined the boy's sports biography. Parents from an early age taught their sons to sports, and when Timofey went to school, there he was noticed by the scouts of the Admiralty Sports School and invited to the basketball section.

When Tim was 10 years old, the family moved to the Republic of Adygea, to the village of Enem. In this place, the boy continued to play sports, but soon outgrew this level and began to travel to the Krasnodar Territory every day to attend trainer Evgeny Lysenko's classes. A few years later, a competent teacher told Mozgov that if he wants to achieve results in basketball, then he needs to leave for the capital's team.

At the age of 16, Timofey returned to St. Petersburg on his own and began training at a basketball boarding school. At the youth level, Mozgov played for CSKA-VVS and Khimki, and then made his debut in a team near Moscow at a professional level.

Timofey Mozgov played for Khimki for four seasons. In the 2008/2009 season, he was appointed center player at the Eurocup, where he impressed the judges and fans and received the unofficial title of the main opening of the competition.

At the same time, in Russia at the national championship, Brain became the most progressive player. In the summer of 2010, a young athlete, whose height reached 216 cm and weight - 120 kg, signed a contract with the American club "New York Knicks" and became the seventh Russian to make it to the NBA.

The basketball player played well, but the team itself was unstable. The management decided to attract star athletes, and for one of them, the Denver Nuggets club demanded Timofey Mozgov in exchange. Thus, without staying in New York for six months, Timofey moved to Colorado.

Initially, in the new club, the Russian was considered only as the fourth center player. Plus, an offensive ankle injury intervened in the adaptation. Only after a couple of seasons, Timofey became a replacement for the main center and began to show a quality game that increased the club's statistics. Mozgov was good in the 2013/14 season, when he managed to set a personal record for rebounds and surpass the achievements of previous Russians in the NBA. Thanks to this, the athlete achieved what he dreamed of - he became the main player in the team.

In January 2015, Timofey Mozgov changed his registration again - he moved to the Cleveland Cavaliers. There, coach David Blatt, who was familiar with the player's capabilities, wanted to see the athlete, since before that he headed the Russian national team. From the very first matches Timofey took a place in the starting five and helped the Cavaliers' defense, considered the worst in the league, to transform beyond recognition.

Together with the Mozgov club, he entered the NBA Championship Finals and turned out to be the first Russian to become the champion of the American Basketball Association.

At the end of the last championship, Timofey moved to the Los Angeles Lakers team and once again broke the record of compatriot basketball players in America: now Mozgov has become the highest paid Russian in the NBA. Over the next four years, the Lakers under the contract were to pay the St. Petersburg resident $ 64 million, that is, $ 16 million a year. For comparison: in the Cleveland Cavaliers club, Mozgov's annual salary was $ 4.65 million.

Having barely managed to move to the Denver Nuggets club from Colorado, Timofey Mozgov was married to Alla Pirshina. The lovers were going to organize a traditional wedding, but because of the short time between basketball camps, they did not have time to complete the necessary documents.

In order not to postpone the celebration for six months, Timofey and Alla simply got married in one of the many chapels in Las Vegas. And almost a year later, the family expanded: his wife gave the basketball player on January 25, 2012, the first-born, son Alexei.

Timofey is a big fan of sports cars, he also loves to watch races and rallies. In addition, refuting the opinion about the lack of education of athletes, Mozgov reads a lot of fiction, so friends and acquaintances speak of the basketball player as an interesting interlocutor.

It is also worth adding that the Russian does not forget about his hometown and the contribution that children's sports made for him. In 2011, in St. Petersburg, Timofey Mozgov organized a tournament for young basketball players called "Brains CUP", which has now received an annual status.

The first competition Mozgov held between children's clubs, one of which was the Admiralteyskaya SDYUSHOR, dear to Timofey. A year later, sports institutions from Monchegorsk, Veliky Novgorod, Cherepovets, Velsk and Vyborg were added to the St. Petersburg schools, which made it possible to organize two cups in a row at once. Among the awards of the competition were a cup, medals and basketballs with the inscription TM 25. It was under this number that Mozgov earned himself a reputation in the NBA Denver club. The best player of the tournament was awarded a jersey signed by the basketball player.

Timofey Mozgov records his achievements in the Instagram microblog, where photos of both sports competitions and family photos and videos appear.

Mozgov also showed himself on Russian television. In the sitcom Happy Together, the basketball player appeared as a cameo. The athlete also visited the program "Evening Urgant" several times. In the release of the comedy show "Yuzhnoye Butovo" he appeared as a guest celebrity.

In 2017, Mozgov joined the Brooklyn Nets team. In October, in Brooklyn, Timofey's new team played against the Cavaliers club, in which Mozgov had played before. Before the competition, Timofey embraced his opponent and former colleague, basketball star LeBron James, multiple NBA champion. A year ago, Cleveland's athletes played together in a match for the NBA title against the Golden State team.

In the same year, Timofey played in the Russian national team, participated in the European Championship. Russia's last entry at EuroBasket was its performance in 2015, but then the national team did not even make the playoffs. Having received a disqualification from FIBA ​​for a period of five years, the team managed to regain the opportunity to play in the next championship.

In 2017, the team, where Timofey played in the central position, managed to prove themselves worthy. Having passed four matches of the preliminary round, the Russian national team fought with Croatia and won with a score of 101: 78. In the quarterfinals, the Greeks became the Russians' rivals, but they were also beaten with a score of 74:69. And only in the semifinals, the Russian team lost to Serbia, which did not prevent them from reaching the final and fighting the Spanish team for third place. Russia lost, but Alexey Shved became the best player in Eurobasket in terms of points scored.

Now Timofey Mozgov plays for the Brooklyn team. But in recent months, there have been tendencies in the club's coaching staff to keep the Russian player on the bench. At the same time, the team won both Orlando and Miami. In the match with the Charlotte (North Carolina) team, Mozgov was also not involved. According to Maxim Sharifyanov, a representative of the basketball player, after such ignoring of the Russian player, Timofey himself refused to participate in the last five games of the 2018 season.

2011 - bronze medal at the European Championships in Lithuania 2012 - bronze medal at the London Olympics 2016 - NBA champion

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